Depends of if you consider the bin over your seat as part of the cost of your seat. Unfortunately, some airlines don’t have bins over the center section of seats (the people who decided that is good airplane design should be drawn and quartered) and you have no choice but to share. In business class, the bins can align with the seats below them. It makes it pretty clear that someone filling up your overhead is the real dick.
Every flight I’ve been on has included an announcement to the effect that the overhead bin space is shared, so don’t hog it. That means don’t put your rolling carry-on bag sideways in the bin, but the longway in, so that the wheels are towards the aisle or towards the fuselage. Don’t put your suitcoat there and not expect someone else to move it to fit their suitcase. Don’t fill up the bin with your giant purse in addition to your carry-on bag.
No you don’t understand. My carry-on HAS TO go above my seat even though that bin is already overfull and there are half-empty bins just a couple rows away. Let me just stand here and push harder so it will fit.
I had this issue with buses and van taxis, I solved it by just doing it annnnnnnnnnnnd wait 30 seconds for the wailing to prod some soul who wasn’t kind enough 30 seconds previous to offer to switch seats so me and the kid could sit together.
The worst is the large families, of any ethnicity. I was on a flight a couple of years ago with a huge group - that time they happened to be Spanish. They wouldn’t listen to the stewardess and were laughing at her and mocking her in Spanish. They wouldn’t sit and they were loud and obnoxious and eventually the Captain had to come back and have a word with them. That is fucking rude and I wish they had been thrown off the goddamn flight.
Everyone makes mistakes and I don’t mind honest mistakes. It’s the people who just don’t give a fuck I hate. Like the woman in the airport at the last place, watching videos on her cellphone with the volume cranked up. I was actually kind of shocked - who does that?
No, that is a dick move.
I still remember the couple with a baby in one of those handled carrier thingies ahead of me in line to go through the scanners (per-TSA). The attendant said the carrier would have to go through the scanner. The couple put the carrier — with the baby — on the conveyor belt.
There was such a scramble as the security people tried to get the baby out…shut down the belt…take the carrier off … before the baby went through the scanner!
Why must families insist on trying to sit together anyway? If your family member is under 8 or actually needs your assistance, fine, one capable adult should attend them, but otherwise just function like an independent being and get in your assigned seat as quickly as possible.
Inexperienced flyers. End of story. Large families of experienced flyers would not make a big thing of sitting together.
Ah, I see the problem. You have gone into a restaurant by mistake. I suggest you wait until the nice people come to take you back to the home.
I’m so experienced I purposely book our tickets to sit apart ever since I realized how great it was to have my kid talking someone else’s ear off.
Oh, I know the difference: the people working on the plane ask me to sit down and show me how to use a seat belt, the ones who collect me for the home sit me down and fasten the belt for me! More of the latter should work as the former.
I was on Lufthansa, and the father-son duo had packed their fargin’ “delicate” cameras into ALL OF the overhead. I went along with it, since at least I had the aisle seat, and stowed my carry-on across the aisle.
I settled in, watching some movie on my $40 Bose headset, and the father-fucker next to me yanked my headrest up and ripped the wires apart. I glared at him, and he snickered (probably drunk). I should have called the Flight Attendant and complained.
Yeah, stow your stuff and sit the fuck down.
Are you serious? That’s kind of troll-y.
FYI, The New York Times today has an article about how some women aboard airline flights are being asked by Orthodox Jewish men to change seats, because the Orthodox Jewish men are forbidden by their religion from sitting next to a woman to whom they are not married. The article notes that this is not the case for all Orthodox Jews and that some rabbis advise that it’s OK to sit next to a woman on a bus, subway or plane, just as long as you’re not getting turned on by her.
Sounds like Marine Corps boot camp.
Wouldn’t a Marine Corps D.I. want the recruits to stand at attention?
Well, they’d want both at the same time. “Go in, sit the fuck down, and stand at attention!” “Maggots!”
I think Anamen was using humor to make a point. Traveling with families apparently, in this thread, means you can’t win. You are a jerk if you ask someone to switch so you can sit next to your minor child. You are a jerk if you don’t.
And, yes, if you don’t call and talk to an agent and have the reservations “bound”, even if you book seats together, the airline will move you anywhere they want.
I don’t know who you are flying with, but in 15 years and close to a million miles I don’t think I have ever had a reserved seat assignment changed (except for bumps to first/business)
Now I stopped flying regularly in 2007 so things may have changed since then but from 92-07 it never happened to me.